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class="CharOverride-5" style="position:absolute;top:2342.55px;left:4906.16px;letter-spacing:0px;">across a catch like her again, not only during this year’s hol-iday but also till the end of days, plus the way she slipped through his fingers, drove him crazy. Because even if it was surely a fact that, after exchanging looks they had greeted each other, it was on no account an event since, if nothing else, in recognition of the un-questionable fact that they happened to be the only representatives of the species Homo Sapiens on that beach, it would have been completely rude of them not to have done so. After all, a dry hello was all they had exchanged, as affably as required by the circum-stances, that’s true, since they had not exactly crossed paths in the Sahara Desert or planet Mars, a hello that she had first directed at him and therefore counted as double, so it was his turn now to take again the floor, otherwise there would probably descend (as it did) a graveyard silence. If he never did, the total blackout, a product of nervousness, a result of cowardice, a con-

- You mean to say that the men’s hello only counts as one?

- You must be a mind reader.

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sequence of pusillanimity, which the unknown woman exacerbated by playing dumb, was merely the reason. Its cause – an equation with numerous unknowns and one constant – the writing, whose resolution needed an iron discipline.

Christening, nonetheless, Deus ex machina someone who in appearance was a “goddess” only inasmuch as the role demanded, and event a fact where apparently absolutely nothing had happened, was, on any occa-sion, only human.

1) Stop burdening the novel with a bunch of trinkets as if it were a Christmas tree.

2) + after-effect of faintheartedness

- It’s as if you’re telling the reader to eat it all up just be-cause it really happened to you.

- Why, is it any better when the reader eats up whatever surreal crap others serve up and thanks them on top of it?

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Chapter 21

Look at that, first and foremost, would be, although still up for discussion, its title.

Simos Panourgias, secondly (even though he was still weighing his options), would be his pseudonym since yes, if it was meant to be published, he would pub-lish it under a pseudonym, and there was no room for negotiation. Why under a pseudonym? For no other reason of course, and here we are dead positive, than to maintain his anonymity. And why was it so impera-tive to maintain it? Well, in order, we guess, to protect himself

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